I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
JAMES M. BARRIESo come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!
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Them that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.
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”She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.
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…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!
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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.
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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him.
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